by Life Long Wobbly The last general strike in the US was in Oakland in 1946. That year there were 6 city-wide general strikes, plus nationwide strikes in steel, coal, and rail transport. More than 5 million workers struck in the biggest strike wave of US history. So […]
by Mohawk Valley Freedom School There will be a film screening and discussion at Mohawk Valley Community College in ACC 116 this Tuesday, October 4 from 7:00 PM to 8:45 PM that is free and open to the public. The documentary film “Ghosts of Attica” (2001) will be […]
by Shane Burley/ROAR Magazine It takes a few minutes for guards to notice that the chow line has stopped. The line of prisoner workers who cook and serve the food have stepped back and are working at half speed. Some never left their cells at all. Others […]
by Love and Rage Staff/Upcoming Events Local activists with the Mohawk Valley Freedom School, Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and Black Rose Anarchist Federation are planning a rally this Saturday in support of a national prisoner strike that will commence on September 9. The strike is against […]
by Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee/Press Release Prisoners from across the United States have just released this call to action for a nationally coordinated prisoner work stoppage against prison slavery to take place on September 9th, 2016. This is a Call to Action Against Slavery in America In one […]
by Industrial Workers of the World/Press Release Workers at the Honest Weight Food Co-operative in Albany have been engaged in an effort to unionize the store for almost two years. Yet many concerns have been ignored by the management of the Co-op, which, ironically, prides itself on its […]
by Love and Rage Team/Upcoming Events May Day is celebrated around the world as International Workers’ Day – a day of labor solidarity, protest and celebration. In 2012 people in Utica started to celebrate May Day again to bring awareness to worker and immigrant rights. This year, community […]
by Mohawk Valley Freedom School In preparation for May Day, otherwise known as International Workers’ Day, on May first, the Mohawk Valley Freedom School will host a series of classes focused on workers’ rights, unions, labor history and activism. The first class is this Thursday, April 7 from […]
by Brendan Maslauskas Dunn/Love and Rage Nearly 200 nurses and their supporters walked on a picket line in front of St.Elizabeth’s Hospital on Friday, March 18. The nurses, who are members of the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA), held a two hour informational picket to educate the […]
by Brendan Maslauskas-Dunn/Love and Rage This list of five revolutionary women from the Mohawk Valley was written in celebration of International Working Women’s Day, a holiday that has very radical roots in the labor and socialist movements, and in the tumultuous textile strikes that swept across New York […]
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